Nancy Rossner: Protecting Your Taxes in a High-Conflict Divorce

Filing jointly with your spouse can hand you a bigger refund, and, if that return is ever wrong, a bill you never saw coming. Attorney Nancy Rossner says that is the trade-off people going through a divorce underestimate, because the IRS can hold either spouse responsible for the whole balance, including tax on income the other person left off. Nancy Rossner is an attorney and the executive director of the Community Tax Law Project, a nonprofit low-income taxpayer clinic in Richmond, Virginia...